PANDAN - Pandan is a herbaceous tropical plant with long green leaves and used to lend a unique taste and aroma.

PANDESAL - salt bread; Filipino dinner roll coated in bread crumbs

PATIS - fish sauce; native salty sauce

PESA - ginger flavored fish soup.

SABA - Cardaba Banana, cooking banana

SAYOTE / CHAYOTE - pear-shaped vegetable;

SINIGANG - soup or stew characterized by its sour flavor most often associated with tamarind (sampalok)

SITAW - long beans or string beans

SUMAN - a rice cake made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, and often steamed in banana leaves

TALONG - eggplant

TAMALES - An indigenized version of the Mexican tamales, the Filipino tamales is a steamed delicacy made with a mixture of ground white and brown (toasted) rice, ground peanuts and coconut milk topped with strips of chicken, shrimp, chorizo and slices of hard boiled eggs and wrapped in banana leaves.